The No-Recipe Pear or Apple Compote Ratio

Pear or apples with lemon, cloves, cinnamon, vanilla and sugar as needed create are a prefect winter preserve fitting for a number of dish ideas. Just adjust the ratio of the ingredients to your liking and the number of jars. By Maja K

My Grandma, 91, who wears an apron 365 days a year, cooked, baked, pickled … food her whole life. Her mother and her grandma, too. So is my mother and I’m merely following the footsteps. That makes me the fifth known, and still remembered, generation of home cooks. Nothing extraordinary in Slovakia.